The Doom of Valyria

ASoIaF, Targaryen lover, Jonrya, weird, shy, advocate for mental health, bookworm, sci-fi, watches way too many tv shows on free time

[wilwheaton]

never forget and never forgive the people who voted for him

[andrew-garfielld]

EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE — Entertainment Weekly (May 14, 2024)

[florencemachines]

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[odinsblog]

Macbeth Syndrome: a crippling fear that the same violence you used to rise to power will be exacted upon you. This explains sO much about white America in general, and settler colonialist countries specifically. Speaking of Israel….

[abessinier]

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

[vesperlionheart]

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

[summerpipedream]

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

[pixie-mage]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

[elainiisms]

all the people sympathising with snow and saying they can't hate him anymore after watching tbosas... y'all let awful white men get away with ANYTHING as long as you find them attractive and it SHOWS

[cant-find-anyone-elseeee]

there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

[licorice-lips]

I think that's really true and probably way scarier than people even realize. When we talk about The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins literally just reflected real capitalist-caused issues to fit into a dystopian world, but it's literally here, from the most obvious thing to the simplest detail:

How the riches and concessions from the Capital to District 1 made people from 1 think of themselves as closer (in nature) to people of the capital than people in the poorest Districts? That's middle-class thinking, stopping them from realizing they're just as pressed by the Capital as the poorest Districts (the guy from 2 in the last movie, saying he wasn't Snow's slave when WE KNOW he is, everyone is?)?

How the electric fence around 12 is THE ONLY THING stopping people from starving to death since they could very well USE the land? That's literally the argument for legalized occupation movements on unused land, like MST and MTST in Brazil.

The use of addictive drugs and the idea of a "war on drugs" in District 6 to control the population and quite literally render them useless to weaponize such an important thing as medical supplies against the Capital (not that this should happen, but still)? That's literally happening in most poor countries in the world, just as much with legalized drugs - like the COVID vaccine (which Africa had and is still having trouble acquiring because of the Global North) - as with illegal drugs like weed, which is used as justification for police to invade favelas in Brazil, kill innocent people (children especially) and brutalize dozens more each time in a war against poor POC in special.

What they did to Finnick, Cashmere, and Gloss? Lemme tell you two words: Epstein Scandal.

The dehumanization of the people from the Districts suffer by the people of the Capital? How billionaires see the working class, how white people view POC, how the North looks at Global South countries - that's exactly there, people.

The control of the media? Comms people can tell you: media always has a side, it's not bad in itself, but most of the mainstream media is right-wing and/or conservative, and I'm not talking just regionally, but globally, hence what we're seeing at mainstream media trying to hide important news, manipulate or maintain the narrative of equivalence between Israel and Palestine when we know what is happening is a genocide, an ethnic-based genocide.

It's literally there.

It's not just in fashion or dehumanization, it's everything. But we're not the Capital.

[thealogie]

“ncuti didn’t have a proper entrance” to YOU. all I saw was him getting treated as the main hero the moment he stepped onto the screen. Getting to call David Tennant a decrepit old man while also being like “shhhh kiddo go play with your friends I got this now” and having the best entrance of any of the doctors I’ve seen so far??

[pagerunner-j]

and then there's the people getting offended on Ncuti's behalf that he had to share any space at all when the actual dynamic between the actors is this

like...

they're good here, kids

[expelliarmus]

[sircolinmorgan]

No one:

The Doctor: that's my best friend Donna Noble!!

[rylandsgrace]

He's not dying alone. You can do what you like to me. I'm going to be with him. It's not dying. I know.

#Just thinking about Donna and 15th still being besties

[darlingofdots]

I have had Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor for five minutes and if anything happens to them I'll kill everyone in this room and then myself

[autistichalfblood]

✨New shiny eyes.✨

[expelliarmus]

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

man I bet Nerys is spreading some CRAZY rumors about Donna's life.

"do you remember Donna's wedding? no, her first wedding. the one where she disappeared and then later she showed up with some random guy and then the two of them left with Lance, her fiance? and then Lance was literally never seen again? yeah they never found his body btw. ok so get this. that guy, the one who crashed the wedding? he lives with her now. and Shaun. just all three of them living together. no I'm not joking. yeah I mean personally I think Shaun should sleep with one eye open but nobody asked me."

[transjudas]

Wild Blue Yonder

bonus:

[nat-20s]

You must understand every single opinion I have about Doctor Who orbits around Donna Noble being the best character ever and I love her with every fiber of my being and when bad things happen to her I want da world to explode